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John Campbell Mitchell

John Campbell Mitchell (1861 - 1922) was active/lived in United Kingdom.  John Mitchell is known for Landscape painting.

John Campbell Mitchell ARSA (1861-1922) was a late 19th and early 20th century Scottish landscape artist. He specialised in broad open views such as moorland or beaches.

He was born 'John Mitchell on Shore Street in Campbeltown in western Scotland on 1 December 1861 to John Mitchell (d.1896), a local grocer, and his wife, Janet McMillan (1836-1920). He adopted the name Campbell in later life, probably in reference to his place of birth. His maternal grandfather, Malcolm McMillan, owned the "Steamboat Inn" in Campbeltown. He attended Campbeltown Grammar School until around 1872.

He was apprenticed as a lawyer to the local (and still extant) firm of C & D MacTaggart. However, the local artist William McTaggart actively encouraged him to pursue art, and in the summer of 1874 he joined The Trustees Academy in Edinburgh to retrain as an artist. He began exhibiting at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1886

In 1887 he went to Paris to study under Benjamin Constant, retu   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3450 characters.]  Artist bio

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